Oh what a difference a mere letter makes! The difference between these two words are oceans apart.

An aisle is the spacing in which one can between two other objects, such as shelves or pews. Hence, The aisles in Los Angeles supermarkets are wider than those in Boston grocery stores, he thought.

An isle is a shortened version of island. To wit, Alcatraz is an isle off the San Francisco coast. In addition, an isle also can refer to items analogous to an island, such as a kitchen isle.

Just remember: Mix up these words, and your readers may leave your book stranded on an isle, like Robinson Crusoe.

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.